Dear All Bards,

Foe's Requiem. Use it.
Battle Voice. Use it.

It makes me die a little bit on the inside whenever I go into WoD/ST/CT and not a single one of the eight bards in the alliance wants to play Foe's. Come on, guys.

Those damned spoony bards.

A bard, actually using a song? Surely, you jest.

On a more serious note, bards that don't play foes even without a black mage are only making their own dps lower. Sure, it's not going to make or break an encounter, but several bard skills have an elemental aspect to them, so foes will up bard dps slightly, and it's based off mp, and bards always need mp, right? Bards that don't play foes even for themselves, or when there are several bards, really just kind of confuse me.

I p much always start a boss battle with my macro'd Foe + Battle voice.

In fact, I ran into a problem today during WoD.... me and the other bard ACTUALLY tried to cast Foe's at the same time :O
That never happens, sometimes (usually) I'm the only one singing.........

Foe's only affects magic, they changed the description from elemental damage to magical so it would be clearer.
I always play foe's in the 24 person raids

In WoD i think the reason they don't use foe's is because it doesn't increase their own dps and they don't really care about other peoples dps, and they don't want to spend those 3 seconds casting it when they could be hitting another button that contributes to their own damage.

Now say if it effect their windbite or venomous bite then a lot more of them would use it.

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Originally Posted by monochromicorn

A bard, actually using a song? Surely, you jest.

On a more serious note, bards that don't play foes even without a black mage are only making their own dps lower. Sure, it's not going to make or break an encounter, but several bard skills have an elemental aspect to them, so foes will up bard dps slightly, and it's based off mp, and bards always need mp, right? Bards that don't play foes even for themselves, or when there are several bards, really just kind of confuse me.

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foes has no effect on any bard skills the elemental ones count as physical even theough they seem like they should be elemental.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

In WoD i think the reason they don't use foe's is because it doesn't increase their own dps and they don't really care about other peoples dps, and they don't want to spend those 3 seconds casting it when they could be hitting another button that contributes to their own damage.

No say if it effect their windbite or venomous bite then a lot more of them would use it.

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Doesn't mean they shouldn't use it.

That 20% damage increase for the 10 or so casters > Throwing in one extra wind bite.

They're usually busy funnelling all of their not BV cooldowns on blasting one mob and tearing it away from the aoe attacks.

If I don't sing foe in the beginning I usually get messed up with when to sing paeon .-.
Yes, I am one of the bards who sing paeon for me, the tanks and melee.

Edit: I actually remember asking the bards if anyone had foe on their bar, and I was told to "stfu" and "if you need foe that badly to be top dps you need to l2p" . Funny thing is I was top dps, but that doesn't really matter. It made for a very heated argument in alliance chat.